For a definition (of most linkage types), dso_local is set for ELF -fno-pic/-fpie
and COFF, but not for Mach-O. This nuance causes unneeded binary format differences.
This patch replaces (function) `define ` with `define{{.*}} `,
(variable/constant/alias) `= ` with `={{.*}} `, or inserts appropriate `{{.*}} `
if there is an explicit linkage.
* Clang will set dso_local for Mach-O, which is currently implied by TargetMachine.cpp. This will make COFF/Mach-O and executable ELF similar.
* Eventually I hope we can make dso_local the textual LLVM IR default (write explicit "dso_preemptable" when applicable) and -fpic ELF will be similar to everything else. This patch helps move toward that goal.
Previously the alignment on the newly created rtti/typeinfo data was largely
not set, meaning that DataLayout::getPreferredAlignment was free to overalign
it to 16 bytes. This causes unnecessary code bloat.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51416
llvm-svn: 342053
In a future change, this representation will allow us to use the new inrange
annotation on getelementptr to allow the optimizer to split vtable groups.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22296
llvm-svn: 289584
Pointer-sized alignment is sufficient as we only ever read single values
from the table. Otherwise we'd bump the alignment to 16 bytes in the
backend if the vtable is larger than 16 bytes. This is great for
structures that are accessed with vector instructions or copied around, but
that's simply not the case for vtables.
Shrinks the data segment of a Release x86_64 clang by 0.3%. The wins are
larger for i386 and code bases that use vtables more often than we do.
This matches the behavior of GCC 5.
llvm-svn: 217495
Fangrui Song